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SWSwatantra PartyNational partySWA

Contested 3 general elections between 1962 and 1971, winning 70 Lok Sabha seats from 410 candidacies. 513 assembly seats won in 19 states.

Lok Sabha overall · since 1962
3
Elections contested
70
Seats won, all time
44
Best result (1967)
6.5%
Avg. vote share
410 candidacies fielded in total
OverviewElection HistoryState-wise Performance
Latest (1971)
8
59 contested · 3.07% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
17.1%
seats won per seat contested

Seats won

Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha

012253749196219671971SWA

Results Overview

410CONTESTS
  • Won70 (17%)
  • Lost340 (83%)

National vote share

Share of all valid votes cast in India, not of seats contested

0%2%5%7%10%196219671971SWA vote share

A regional party fighting 40 seats out of 543 is capped at a low national share however well it does. Read this line against the seats chart above, not on its own.

Key highlights

  • Best-ever result was 44 seats in 1967, on 8.67% of the national vote.
  • At the 1971 election it contested 59 seats and won 8, a 14% strike rate.
  • Strongest constituency is BOLANGIR, Odisha, won 2 times, most recently in 1971.
  • Holds a state assembly record in 19 states, with 513 assembly seats won overall.

Totals

Across 3 general elections the party has polled 2.62 cr votes and lost 180 deposits. It has won 513 assembly seats across 48 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/swa.